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Rohingya Crisis: States Can't Send Back Refugees Facing Danger, Says UN Body
As India plans to deport Rohingya Muslim immigrants, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) today said the principle of non-refoulement -- or not sending back refugees to a place where they face danger -- is binding on all states.
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UNHCR to be Awarded 2015 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace
Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2015 will be awarded to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), it was announced today.
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Hungary Lays on Buses for Refugees Walking to Austria
Hungary late Friday laid on buses to ferry hundreds of desperate refugees who had set off on foot for the Austrian border after being stranded for days in Budapest's main railway station.
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Security Concerns Limit Syrian Refugees Coming to US
While the exodus from Syria has become the world's biggest refugee crisis, the United States is being criticized by relief organizations and some within President Barack Obama's Democratic Party for allowing only a limited flow into America.
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Britain Says Mediterranean Migrants Should be Turned Back
Britain called Wednesday for migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to be turned back, threatening to scupper a new European Union plan for quotas to redistribute migrants across the continent.
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Syrians may soon become world's biggest refugee group: United Nations
Syrians could soon overtake Afghans as the world's biggest refugee population, with their numbers expected to pass four million by year's end, a top United Nations official said on Tuesday.
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Rohingya Crisis: States Can't Send Back Refugees Facing Danger, Says UN Body
As India plans to deport Rohingya Muslim immigrants, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) today said the principle of non-refoulement -- or not sending back refugees to a place where they face danger -- is binding on all states.
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UNHCR to be Awarded 2015 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace
Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2015 will be awarded to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), it was announced today.
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Hungary Lays on Buses for Refugees Walking to Austria
Hungary late Friday laid on buses to ferry hundreds of desperate refugees who had set off on foot for the Austrian border after being stranded for days in Budapest's main railway station.
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Security Concerns Limit Syrian Refugees Coming to US
While the exodus from Syria has become the world's biggest refugee crisis, the United States is being criticized by relief organizations and some within President Barack Obama's Democratic Party for allowing only a limited flow into America.
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Britain Says Mediterranean Migrants Should be Turned Back
Britain called Wednesday for migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to be turned back, threatening to scupper a new European Union plan for quotas to redistribute migrants across the continent.
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Syrians may soon become world's biggest refugee group: United Nations
Syrians could soon overtake Afghans as the world's biggest refugee population, with their numbers expected to pass four million by year's end, a top United Nations official said on Tuesday.
